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USCIS approval is the easier part. I've made my first NVC document submission in Dec 2021 and the case is still in NVC. This is IR1 case. And it's not like I'm being negligent with the documents being submitted, and our case is clearly approvable. The whole NVC process used to be a simple formality before the interview and it took 3 months at most to complete, but now it became a bureaucratic barrier that is almost impossible to overcome. They don't give a damn about your circumstances, they don't give a damn about US citizen kids being stuck in Russia because their mother's case can't move through NVC. There is no authority to complain, no accountability whatsoever. This is a cold bureaucratic machine, pure and simple. It seems like they only sabotage the cases of Russian applicants, maybe because Warsaw consulate is backed up, hard to tell. More info here: https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/787962-nvc-discrimination-against-russian-applicants-or-simply-incompetence/ More data: - Expedite request: rejected - 2 Case transfer requests: rejected by the embassies

Yes, they relabeled my wife's passport biographic page like that and now asking for a new one Also, her original police certificate is now expired (valid for 6 months only) and now we'll have to submit a new one together with translation. Something is going on here, I'm sure on my next re-submission they will come up with something else. At this point I have no hope of getting my family to US any time soon.

I'm preparing my 4th document submission to NVC and I wonder if other people having similar experiences? NVC keeps mishandling my submitted documents, both financial and civil. For example, they improperly titled one of the the documents and now asking for its re-submission. Also, I attached my most recent W2 form that covers Poverty Guidelines many times over and then they ask for my 1099s. It just feels unreal. Every re-submission takes 2.5 months to review, I have my whole family stuck in Russia because of this. On top of that they no longer have a phone line to call them. Anyone having the similar experience with them? Is it discrimination or just incompetence?

Please share your experience in getting Schengen visa to get to the interview in Warsaw. I've heard that Poland doesn't issue any visas to Russians at all and best chance (50/50) would be Italy. I wonder if the following would help when applying for a Schengen visa from Italy: Attaching interview invitation letter from NVC. Attaching copy of US passport of a spouse traveling with an applicant. Related question: when the packet of documents arrives to the applicant before the interview, what it contains? I've specified my US address as a mailing address for that packet because Russian Post Office is notoriously unreliable. Re-sending those packets by DHL to Russia is currently impossible, but they can make the scanned copies for me over there. Will the copies be accepted to get to the interview? Or maybe NVC also emails those documents to the applicant?